Professional forest management is key to producing the right trees for making the right products. We take pride in the way we manage and take care of our forests – from land preparation, seed selection, planting, disease and pest control, thinning, pruning and harvesting. It’s a deliberate, methodical and continuous process to ensure that the product requirements are met. JNL intensively prune our forests in order to grow a high value clearwood resource for processing in our plants.
We have 40,000 hectares of predominantly radiata pine plantation forest, across two North Island regional locations – Wairarapa and East Coast. Our forests are close to our mill operations so freshly cut logs can be efficiently delivered for processing.
We carefully select and prepare the land and the seedlings to be planted, and we monitor and control diseases and pests. Our tree stocking adjustments include selective thinning to ensure managed and uniform growth of remaining trees, whilst our silvicultural practices include higher than normal pruning to achieve tree logs with a larger proportion of unblemished (clear) wood. Harvesting is undertaken with sensitivity to the environment and to natural features and habitats. And once trees are harvested the ground is prepared again in readiness for replanting, usually within 6 months.
Good policies and practices will only work when experienced, knowledgeable and committed people are “on the job”. We foster and encourage strong and enduring relationships with our staff and our contractors – people who are passionate about the forests they work in, about what they do, and about their importance in the supplier-to-customer product chain.
At Juken New Zealand Ltd our success depends on and reflects our commitment to the environment. Our customers demand it, and we respond to that demand, through our environmentally sensitive forestry and manufacturing processes. Our practices and products deliver on that.
